Dry Needling in Subjects With Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (TDNDOMS)

Bradley University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness

Treatments: Other: Sham needling; Other: Dry needling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03876080

CUHSR 71-18

Details and patient eligibility

About

Investigation of the biomechanical response in delayed onset muscle soreness using dry needling vs. sham

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The participants of the study will be any healthy male or female between
• age of 18 to 35
• able and willing to perform an exercise protocol using the gastrocnemius muscle
• willing to receive either sham or dry needling intervention

Exclusion criteria

• current muscular pain
• prior trigger point therapy in the past 6 months
• medications that affect muscle function
• injury in the past 6 months
• any health condition that prevents exercising
• recent surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

Dry needling

Experimental group

Description:

Dry needling intervention to the gastrocnemius muscle trigger point

Treatment:

Other: Dry needling

Sham needling

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Sham dry needling intervention to the gastrocnemius muscle trigger point

Treatment:

Other: Sham needling